7. Additional Tools

7.1. ESI-Manager

ESI-Manager can be found through the main menu File -> ESI-Manager.

This dialog helps the user to administrate his ESI and SCI files. Here, he can add/delete/export ESI and SCI files.

7.2. Capture File

A capture file could be helpful, if you have a very large system or system is not always available. In that case you can connect to your system, save one or more snapshots into a capture file and analyse the created capture file later.

Another use case is, that your system from time to time has some problems. In this case you can activate the automatic mode and create the snapshots every specific interval or based on specific master notifications.

At the moment there are the following options:

Filename

Folder:

Path, where the capture files should be saved

Base file name:

Base file name of the generated capture file name

Date:

Activate, to add the date to the generated capture file name

Time:

Activate, to add the time to the generated capture file name

Automatic Mode

Interval (min):

Time to wait until next snapshot will be taken

Maximum Snapshots:

Enter count of maximum snapshots

After the snapshot(s) is / are made in diagnosis mode they can selected in the overview in config mode:

After the selection switching to diagnosis mode is possible. In the toolbar will be an additional combobox to select the snapshot and switch between them:

7.3. Wireshark File

With the EC-Inspector it is possible to analyze a previous recorded catupre file pcap or pcapng.

Therefore a wireshark have to be captured and saved as pcap or pcapng. Then it can be selected in the starting view of the EC-Inspector. Also the ENI file has to be selected.

It is also possible to read multiple files. Therefore the pcap files have to named like that: name.00000.pcap.

On switching to diagnosis mode the file will be read by EC-Monitor. After that the file is in play mode. It is possible to play the file faster or slower or select pause. There is also a function to execute a specified amount of cycles. This can all be done in the toolbar:

7.4. Pcap File

With EC-Inspector it is possible to capture a pcap file, same as Wireshark. Open Settings/Pcap File and the follwing dialog appears:

Filename

Folder:

Path, where the pcap files should be saved

Base file name:

Base file name of the generated pcap file name

Date:

Activate, to add the date to the generated pcap file name

Time:

Activate, to add the time to the generated pcap file name

Output format:

The output format can be selected. Pcap or pcapng

Create a new file automatically:

A new file is created after one of the multiple file switch conditions is met. They will be named: name.00000.pcap. With the ringbuffer option a file is created if value is not reached, otherwise it will replace the oldest of the formerly used files (thus forming a “ring”). This mode will limit the maximum disk usage, even for an unlimited amount of capture input data, only keeping the latest captured data.

On the toolbar will be a new button in diagnosis mode to start and stop the pcap file recorder:

It is also possible to record a pcap backtrace file. When EC-Inspector is in pause mode (e.g. from a trigger condition) the user can capture the last 64 frames via the backtrace button in the toolbar.

After the capture is made in diagnosis mode it can be selected in the overview in config mode as described in the previous chapter Wireshark File.

7.5. Inspection Report

If you want to print or show a report about the actual session, it is possible with the inspection report. I shows a lot of different data about the network communication. It is also possible to print a PDF.